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Of course, all of this is absurd security theater, given that chip-and-PIN is already broken: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/oakland10chipbroken.p...
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Would your friend have died of a heroin overdose if heroin was easily available to maintain his habit and regulated? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin_assisted_treatment
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There are plenty of people who aren't libertarians at all who disagree with the War on Drugs. I don't think it's inherently immoral for the government to regulate hard drugs, but pragmatically I think as a policy it's a failure, with negati
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Liberal arts teaching is hardly brilliant for many either, although teachers have a fair bit more leeway..
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For me, it's not as good as OneBusAway (although obviously the UI is much better); the bus times are a bit off for the bus I get to work.
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I don't think it's fair to expect a customer service representative to understand the issue here. Maybe it might be better to go through Tesco's corporate arm? I just tried submitting something through the feedback form on the front page of
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There are definitely a lot of recordings on Usenet...
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In the UK, that's essentially exactly what we have: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/oftel/publications/br...
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This paper is relevant: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~efros/courses/AP06/Papers/Blanz-siggr... Of course, you need their database to make the algorithm work, but if you emailed the authors they might be accomodating..
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It's hardly rocket science to tell whether a review is astroturfing or not..
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If you're interested, this is called a natural monopoly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
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So much of fashion is fit anyway, you'll be more stylish with a small wardrobe of clothes that fit well than a wide variety of ill-fitted stuff.
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I guess it still adds value (potentially? Maybe less so with IDEs and maybe not worth the language complexity tradeoff) if you use very long variable names, which do help somewhat with readability.
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Are you thinking of Agda/Coq/Idris, which have dependent types? If you understand a bit of type theory, this is an interesting paper: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/papers/popl99.pdf
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Could you use e.g. bcrypt(SHA1(x))? I think that should be OK, and avoids the issues with switching over current users (just take the bcrypt of the currently stored passwords).
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Julia looks promising as a Matlab replacement: http://julialang.org/
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If this happens and you don't want to replace the plug, you can get a pencil and put that in the ground hole to allow you to put the other two pins in.
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Release notes here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.1/html/users_guide/relea... Some good stuff in this release --- preliminary ARM support is exciting for obvious reasons, and the new kinds flags are fun if you like that sort of thin
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I wouldn't quite phrase it like that, but yes, in essence. It's wrong to break a promise --- your friend who released the song to the world was in the wrong --- but once it's out there it's not wrong to spread it further. I recommend 'Again
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It's wrong because it's trespassing or theft. It directly causes harm to someone to disseminate their private thoughts, whereas a literary or artistic work is intended to be distributed. Trade secrets are really more about contract protecti
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The private diary issue is different - it's wrong to read someone's diary without their permission even if you don't disseminate the information. Same with trade secrets, there are separate protections for those.
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> How do you suggest we reinterpret? Should everyone get everything they want for free? A Kickstarter-type patronage model would work: the creators of Game of Thrones ask for funding for a new series, then release it directly into the p
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Might want to drop that slash: https://www.priorknowledge.com/join-us works!
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Exactly - your customers might care if you use Comic Sans ('ew, why is this site so ugly?') but probably won't if you use Lobster or, say, Twitter Bootstrap well - even if you might be lazy.
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No, this form of strength reduction can often eliminate modulo operations in a loop even when the modulus is not a constant. The example given is: for(t = 0; t < T; t++) for(i = 0; i < NN; i++) A[i%N] = 0; which is
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Or, you know, just get a decent compiler: http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TM-60...
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There's some interesting discussion about how long copyright terms should be to be economically optimal here: http://www.rufuspollock.org/economics/papers/optimal_copyrig... It arrives at a figure of 15 years, which seems quite sensible t
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Modafinil definitely has a similiar effect, if you sleep when it's active..
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Sweden are pretty clear favourites at about 5/4, followed by Russia (7/1) and Italy (12/1): http://beta.betfair.com/special-bets/market?id=1.104582460
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The artist hasn't 'lost out' on anything. With digital distribution there is no marginal cost for extra consumption --- it's all fixed cost. This is why a patronage model (such as Kickstarter) is probably more appropriate nowadays. Even if

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